install of cdrom on hp small pc

Howdy,
I have a HP small pc that only has room for a slimline cdrom. It doesn't have a secondary ide connection, but it has a 50 pin connector on the mother board that says cd rom. I have a slimline cd rom to put in it that has a 40 pin connector, power supply connector, and audio connector, but no jump jacks to master or slave. I tried to put on primary drive with hdrive, but it could not find the cdrom. Is there a way to get this to adapt to the 50 pin mother bd connection.

If you can give us specific hard ware names and model numbers it may be a bit easier to find information that may lead to a successful convertor or it may reveal that it is not possible. I for one would hate to say no it doesnt exist, however the likelyhood of a convertor of that type to exist is very very slim. Because the drivers may not be specific to your model drive as well as if it is IDE or proprietary. So to be honest with you, it probably wont work.

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Thanks for pointing that out for me, I have been up since 5:30 am (its only 8:15pm) and driven for 6 hours as well so my mind and eyes are not quite as sharp as they could be.

There are available 3.5" to 2.5" adaptors that are used for putting laptop hard drive into PCs, I suggest that you find one and try that on the 50 pin adaptor on the motherboard or fit a PCI IDE adaptor, an older ATA66 will be more than adequate for a cd rom, but of course you must have a spare, usable PCI slot.

SCSI was my first thought. Then I remembered that this is HP, so I had to then think proprietary. If it is proprietary, you would have to get one from HP or off of the same model HP that has a crispy fried mobo or CPU. You may be able to find plenty of HPs sitting on the ground outside of Office buildings. I have come across plenty of unhappy HP customers who just want to "throw the thing out the window."

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odomokAuthor Commented: 2002-06-12

The model of the computer is HP SMALL PC 20 and the model of the cdrom is CD-224E-A48 (compaq). The cdrom has a funky connector on it , but it came with a paddle bd that converts it to 40 pin. I tried to slave the hard drive, but it would only see the cdrom then. Where's a good place to get PCI IDE adapter?